ABOUT EDWIN MCRAE
Edwin McRae is a senior narrative design consultant who is ready and willing to help you with your card game, board game, table-top roleplaying game, game book or any other reality-based gaming experience.
He has freelanced as a writer and narrative designer in the games industry since 2011 and written two non-fiction books on narrative design; Narrative Design for Writers and Narrative Design for Indies. Edwin has also been a LitRPG author, a television screenwriter, a learning designer for game development courses and a drama teacher.
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LATEST GAME
Flesh and Blood TCG
Welcome to the world of Flesh and Blood, a hero-centric fantasy trading card game that features classic fantasy classes with unique playstyles.
LATEST BOOK
Narrative Design for Writers
Do you want to turn your talent for writing into a narrative design career in the games industry?
LATEST BLOG POSTS
Lore! What is it good for?
Lore! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing... unless it's important to gameplay or characters.
How to break into the games industry as a writer
Veteran game writer and narrative designer, Rudolf Buirma, offers advice to writers who want to work in the video games industry.
Building game worlds for indies - Stimulation versus Imagination
We explore the stimulation - imagination continuum of player engagement and look at how indie game devs can strike a balance between the two.
Writer learning Unity game engine - Initial Impressions
Edwin embarks on his learning Unity journey with Future Games.